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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Video of Yesterday's Course

It is absolutely beautiful outside today, so I decided to set up the camera and video a little bit of work using the course I shared yesterday. Since the dogwalk was already there, I added it to my course as you will see in the video.

A word about my red merle, Dusty. He is a rescue that I adopted almost six years ago. He has always had a difficult time with head-checking. Possibly because I lacked the skill and timing to get my commands out fast enough. In the early days, this was noticeable even when he was jumping; now it shows up mostly when I send him to a tunnel. He has collided with the occasional sandbag when continuing to run at full speed while looking over his shoulder at me.

It took Dusty and me three calendar years to earn our EAC, and to date, he has only one Elite Chances Q. Partly this is because I no longer run him in trials very often. However, I will be running him this Saturday, so wish us luck. Sunday, he will run with his new best friend, David. Unlike me, David can actually run fast enough to keep up with Dusty, and Dusty really, really likes it. In fact, he was quite miffed the first time he heard David running his own dog at a trial. (He's gotten over that.)